The previous one year-record for gaming revenue was $12.8 billion in 2007.
Previously, Nevada casinos had topped the $12 billion mark only three times – 2019, 20.
The total blew past the $7.9 billion in gaming revenue in 2020 by almost 71 percent and topped the 2019 pre-pandemic figure of $12 billion by 11.6 percent.
Soon after Nevada casinos reopened on June 4, 2020, following an unprecedented 78-day closure in hopes of slowing COVID-19’s spread, gaming analysts said it would take three or four years for the state and the Strip to return to pre-pandemic revenue totals.īuoyed by a record-setting 10 straight months of $1 billion or more in gaming revenues, Nevada’s casino industry closed out 2021 with an all-time high of more than $13.4 billion in pre-tax gaming figures, according to a report released Thursday by the Gaming Control Board.
